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Paste text from Vim when it's suspended (ctrl+z)

by dalibor — 13 January 2013

I’m using Ubuntu and terminal vim and I have this workflow that I would yank something in Vim, suspend it (ctrl+z) and then paste the yanked text on command line usually to do a search with ack. For some reason when I suspend Vim, X Window clipboard gets empty and it will paste nothing. Here is a small vim function that will fix that by using xsel.

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